The Sun. — London, England, 1864-04-07 00:00:00

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'IMPORTANT TO HORSE KEEPERS. — For 1 FIVE SHILLINGS you can get your horse into splen did working condition, and improve its value £5 and up wards—this fti 30 days, by mixing (night and morning) a Penny Packet ot THORLEY'S Spicy Aromatic CONDI MENT with the usual corn and chaff, damped with water. 145 Flee Hstreet, City, has been ripened expressly for the pubic to obtain this mighty compound genu.ne and fresh in small quantities, thereby startling the world, in a nati ,, nal point ot vi,w, with the greatest discovery that ever was in vented, for converting the commonest hay and straw into a superior provender, and enabling an ani i,al to dieest a given amount ot food in less time than it otherwise could. A barrel containing 413 feeds, carriage paid, for 30°. TIOYAL ITALIAN OPERA, Covent-Garden. Subseriptio Night - , This Evening (Thursday), in lieu of the last Tuesday of the season. Debut of Mdlle. Destine. Debut of Signor Wachtel. First Appearance of Aldlle. Fricci. THIS EVENING (Thursday ) , April 7, will be performed, for the first time this season, Verdi's opera, IL TROVA TOttE. Leonora, Mdlle. Fried, her first appearance thi season ; Inez, Mdlle. Anese • Azucena, Mdlle. Des inn, her first appearance in Eng and ' ; 11 Conte di Luna, Signor Gra ziani ; Fernandez, Signor Tagliafico ; Ruiz. Signor Lucchesi ; Un Zingaro, Signor RosA ; and Manrico, signor Wacatel, his first appearance. Conductor, Mr. st Coa. Commence at half past Eight. Pit tickets, 7s. ; amphitheatre sta Is, 10s. 6d., 75., and ss. amphitheatre. 2s. 6d. Boxes, stalls, and tickets may be had 1.,t the box-office under the portico of the theatre, and at the principal musicsellers' and librarians'. THEATRE ROYAL DRUR Y-L AN E. Managers, Messrs. Edmoternd Falconer and F. B. Chatton. - • -- - THIS EVENING, MAGIC TOYS. Miss Lydia Thomp son. Atter which, will be produced the Grand Stage Revival of Shakepere's Chronicle or Historical Play, entitled the First Part of HENRY THE FOURTH. No pains or expense will be spared to render this presen tation of our National Author's most popular, and it may be said, most representative English Drama, a becommg Cora me noratfon, in example, at the National Theatre, of ti grandeur and comprehensive character of his genius. The cast will include impersonations by those emineit trtists, Mr. PHELPS, Mr. Walter Montgomery, Mr. Walter Lacy, Mr. Addison, Mr. Ryder, Mr. Robert Roxby, Mr. Barrett, Mr. E Phelps, Mr. Rayner, Mr. H. Vandenhoff, Mr. G. Belmore, Mr. }Merton, Mr. Fitzjames, Mr. Neville ; Miss Edith Wynne, M ss Rose Leclercq, end Mrs. Edmund Fal coner, supported by all the Members of the Drury-lane Ccm pany. Toe new and characteristic scenery will be entirely de • signed and painted by Mr. William Beverley. The costumes, armour, &c , will be fashioned from designs by R. W. Keene, Esq , taken from illustrated MSS. of the period, and other authorities. Concluding with MY HEARTS IN THE HIGHLANDS. Mr. G. Belmore. THEATRE ROYAL HAYNIARKET.- Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr, Buckstone. THIS EVENING, April 7, OURrAMERICAN COUSIN: Messrs. Sothern, Buckstone, Chippendale, Hozers, Clark, Gordon, Braid, &c. ; Mesdames Angel, Lindley, hill, Harri 3, Snowden, &c. After which, the new Easter piece, entitled VENUS AND ADONIS. Messrs. Compton, Wm. Farren, Coe. &c. ; Mes dames Louise Keeley, Snowden, Nelly rower, Hill, Wright, Rozers, &c. To conclude with MY HUSBAND'S GHOST. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Sole Lesee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Tinin:. THIS EVENING, PAUL'S RETURN. After which, THE COMEDY OF ERRORS. Dromios, by the Brothers Webb. To conclude with, 10th time, a new Farce, by , J. M. Morton, Esq., entitled DRAWING-ROOM, SECOND FLOOR, AND The Two ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Sole Management of Mr. Fechter. THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with THE DAY AFTER THE FAIR: Messrs. Widdi combe, Garden, Moreland, and Miss E. Lavenu. Atter which, at Eight o'clock, the 125th Night of BEL DEMONIO, a Love Story, in Twelve Tableaux, taken from Stendhal's "Italian Chronicle." Principal character by Mr. Fechter. Messrs. Jordan, Charles, J. Brougham, Emery, Raymond, Moreland, Smith, Clifford, Collett, Sims •, Miss Kate Terry, Miss E. Lavenu, Mrs. Lee, tries Elsworthy. The Public are entreated to take notice that No Charge is made to the occupants of Boxes, Box-places, or Stalls, either for play bills or for the safe keepin ,, of hats and cloaks, and teat the attendants in all parts of the house are forbidden to receive any gratuities whatever. Box-office open daily from 11 to 5. Commence at 7. EW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.- Sole Proprietor and Manazer. 317. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, THE PitETTY HORSE BREAKER: Mr. J. L. Toole and Miss Woolgar. At S. LEAH : Miss Bateman, supported by Messrs. A. Stirling, IL Phillips, Billington, Stuart, Eburne, Stephenson ; Miss IL Simms and Mrs. Billington. To opnelude with THE AREA BELLE : Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, tt. Romer, Miss Woolgar, and Mrs. H. Lewis. Commence at 7. igl S S BATEMAN.—L E A 11.—TH.lb EVENING and EVERY EVENING.—Miss Bateman will re-appear in her great impersonation of the Jewish maiden until further notice. In order :o give due effect to t:ds most remarkable suczess of the seison, eolire:y new scenery by the celebrat.d artists Messrs. Dans= and Sons, and Thompson. New dr:ssA and appo . ntments have been prepared for its production.—N. B. In consequence of the pressing and numerous applications at the Box-off .e, ar rangements have now been made by which Seats m,y b ob taine I a Fortnight in Advance. R OYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. under the Management of Mr. B. WEBSTER. Crowded with Rank and Fashion.—The greatly successful new Comedy every Evening,.—Re-engagement of those cele brated artistes, Mr. and Mrs. C. Mathews. —Amongst the artists engaged are Mr. Ben, Webster, Mr. Charles Mathews, Mr. J. L. Tvole, Mr. J. Clarke, Mr. Paul Bedford. Mr. Frank Matthews, Mr. F. Robinson ; Miss Herbert, Mrs. Charles Mathews, Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss A. Cottrell, Miss Fanny Josephs, Miss Patti Josephs, Miss Wentworth, and Mrs. Stirling. Every Evening, at 7, the favourite Far3e of FORTY AND FIFTY : Mr. and Mrs. Frank Matthews. At a quarter before 8, the successful new Comedy, by L. Buckingham, Esq., entitled THE SILVER LINISG Mr. Charles Mathews, Mr. F. Robinson, Mr. Ashley, Mr. Montague ; Mrs. Charles Mathews, Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss A. Cottrell, Miss Wentworth, and Mrs. Stirling. After which, COOL AS A CUCUMBER. Mr. Charles • Mathews. To conclude with UNDER THE ROSE : Mr. Ashley and gist; A. CottrelL Commence at 7. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Manager, Mr. W. H. Swanborough. T a S EVENING, a new Comedietta, A HUNT FOR A HUSBAND. After which, the Grand Christmas Burlesque, ORPHEU3 AND EURYDICE : Messrs. Honey, Wood, James Fenton, Mesdames Swanborough, Marie Wilton, Hughes, &o. Concluding with MARGATE SANDS. Commence at'. TIFIE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," LL Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, ban be had Every Evening of G. R. GLMNIE, NEW 9 AGENT, No. 4. Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. COALS. —The LIL LESTIAL L CO NI PANY 'S COAL. Direct from their own Collieries. Marquis' 26s. per ton. \ Double 2.1 e. per ton. Top 255. „ Nut 5........ 195. „ Deep 22s . " Well screened and delivered within five miles of their De pots, Westbourne Park-road, W., and 17, South Wharf, - raddlngton, W. Best Coke Terms cash. JOHN SCOTT, Sole Agent. The Weather—Sun Office, April 7, 1864. THERMOMETER. This day at Two o'clock 46 Barometer-30.15. Wind—E ; light breeze, and fine. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 2h. 21m.—Afternoon, 2h. 44m. ro-moßuow.-Monling, 3;i. 3m.—Afternoon, 3h. 28m. Ull.4S"'”lWAtri, LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1861. O f all the proud names which illumine our English history, of all the laurel crowned chiefs and victorious statesmen who have triumphed in camp or cabinet, on battle deck or in senatorial struggle, there is none more brilliant or more popular than that of the great man who died at Trafalgar. The profession of the seaman is of itself espccially dear to the English heart, and naval heroes are usually regarded with additional warmth of admiration and Sympathy; but there is something in the character of HORATIO NELSON in its Bina• frankness, its m o d esty, and its daring, pEcity, its added to that especial genius for command which elevated him to the very highest pinnacle of success and glory,whieh leaves him almost alone in his hold on the popular regard. Sixty years have slipped away since that memorable encounter, sixty years have passed since the supremacy of England was unquestionably established on the seas, and the nation was divided between rejoicings over the victory and sorrow for the loss of its hero. But though that epoch has seen the revolutions of a world, yet NELSON and Trafalgar keep their hold unshaken on the national memory. The glories of Waterloo ilitTO not pled the vividness of the recollection, and however wonderful the achievements of modern science, the invulnerable mammoths, the death dealing guns, the invisible terrors of monitors and steam rams, there is still an undefined notion in the public mind that the palmy days of British seamanship were the days of the Nilo and Trafalgar, that the true type of an English naval hero was the dashing fearless hero who stood arrayed in his ‘ 4 orders , ' on the deck at Trafalgar. Such being the strength and endurance of the general feeling then, it is natural to suppose that it has found some expression. The most usual mode of paying honour to a great man dead is to entomb him in a costly sarcophagus, and raise monuments to his memory. This has been done with NELSON, as the interiors of our great cathedrals testify, but our doings have stopped here. Our grateful recollection of the services rendered, our admiration for the con queror's achievements has not induced us to seek out more sentient tokens of his memory than stone or marble. At this very moment there is living in as English county, enfeebled by age and per manently incapacitated from work, an old sailor who shared the perils of Trafalgar, who fought by the side of the great commander, who saw him fall, end was one of the four men who had the melan• choly duty of carrying him off the deck which he should never tread again. Surely the recollection of such a scene and such associations give him some claim on the national regard. A foreigner on hear ing that a survivor of that desperate strife still lingered among us would naturally suppose that so rich and liberal a country, so tenacious of its national honour, so proud of its naval history, would have long since placed the old sailor in a position of complete independence. It would not cost so much to provide for the wants of the old man, to give him in his age the guerdon which his brave youth fairly won, to enable him to tell his tale of NELSON and VILLENEUVE, of HARDY and COLLINGWOOd, of the Victory and the Santissima Trinidada, without thought of the future darkening the past, without dread of a pauper's funeral or fear of wanting bread. We cherish the memories of great men passed away, we celebrate their centenaries, their tri-centenaries, and a host of other festivals. We pay large sums for trifles once belonging to them, for houses where they have been born, or lived, or died, for books they have corrected with their pencils, for manuscripts they have left behind. But here is a living being who cannot only remind us of the glories of the past, but recall them viva voce to us; who has the claim not only of having been closely associated with one of our national boasts, but of having himself shared, however slightly, in the danger, of having taken a part, however insignifi cant, in the triumph. And seed a man in our wealthy England has no resource but the work house ! Ho must die in a pauper's bed, and be buried in a parish coffin for lack of a few shillings a week, while thousands are lavished annually on pensions and sinecures, on ex• Ministers of State, and supernumerary officials. And England has not the excuse of ignorance. Three years ago an appeal was made on behalf of this old man, when some money was collected for him by subscription, but the most careful management will scarcely spin £5O out for ever in maintaining a poor bedridden old man. Lady NELSON, in token of the name she bears, allows him three shillings a week, but the parish will allow him nothing ! It was not SANDI LANDS' fate to die in the hour of triumph, or to fall beside his commander on the blood-stained deck of the Victory, but when the news of blended triumph and disaster was wafted quickly homewards, it would have been thought strangely in credible that any who took part in so glorious a struggle, more especially one who was so closely connected with the last hours of the hero, should have to say that England outlived her gra titude. Yet in trophies, and testimonials, and me morials to those who need them not, we lavish our means and attention ; and while we celebrate a three hundredth Shaksperian anniversary it seems that a century has not passed before we have for gotten NELSON. Let us make some amends before it is too late, and let a sufficient amount be raised by private benevolence, or, better still, provided by the Public Treasury, to ensure the old sailor's pass ing his few remaining days in comfort, to save him from the last resource of vagrancy and destitution, and to remove so disgraceful a reproach from the Government and the people. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE deserves great credit for the spirit with which ho has taken up the subject of the removal of the British consuls in the Confederate States of America, The noble lord very fully and fairly explained the leading circumstances of the case, and they are certainly such as call for investigation, and are altogether of too important a nature, and too significant a reference, to be pissed over in silence. From his statements it appears that the Federal Govern ment, as usual, are very much to blame, and Earl RUSSELL, with the prejudice and partiality that ordinarily characterises him on this subject, de clared some time back that the Confederate Go vernment was to blame for the removal of the Consuls. Lord CLANRICARDE very properly de nounced the language of the noble earl, and said that he spoke in haste, and in anger, and that the facts of the case did not bear the aspect which he had put upon them. The charges brought by the Federal Government against these consuls that they had committed or sanctioned illegal acts was most unfounded, and the best proof that they went too far is that Earl RUSSELL himself acknowledged that in the case of Mr. BUNCH, the Government of 'Washington had un justly taken away his exequatur. When the noble lord, the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, allows so much, we are full justified in assuming much more. Another thing that undeniably presents itself to our notice is that we heard no mention of this affiir before, and certainly Earl RUSSELL did not allude to it, when he discoursed upon the subject some time back. A want of ingenuousness like this on the part of a public functionary is very repre hensible, and must produce the most disastrous effects on the feelings of those who analyse the events in toto when they are cleared from the mists that Ministerial and official routine cast around all important matters. The Federal Government must have conceived a very low opinion of the spirit of our 3linisters before they presumed to interfere with such impertinent conduct, or dictate terms with such arrogant assumption as they have done throughout the whole course of this protracted and most disastrous struggle. When we read and hear of thebombastic declamations and the grandiloquent aseeverations with which the Ministers and their friends and adherents proclaim the grand principle of non-intervention and descant upon the meritori ous management of our Cabinet, it naturally sug gests itself to the mind that there is a great deal of clap-trap in all this fine sounding tirade of "neu trality." There never was such glaring want of faith exhibited by statesmen as that displayed by Earl RUSSELL and his colleagues in this affair of the America war. Alatters have gone so far that the noble Secretary for Foreign Affairs has agreed to the motion of the noble marquis, with p few trifling alterations. This is a I.eint gained, at any rate, and many different reasona will doubtless be given as an explanation of the somewhat extraordinary acquiescence, Perhaps the noble lord thinks he will gain some thing, or lose much in driving things to extremi ties—perhaps he knows that before the particulars are duly ascertained or fully circulated it may not be as an official character that he listens to the animadversions that their perusal may call forth. Whatever may be the real reaeon or the secret motive that has actuated the noble lord in his con sent to the proposition, it is to be considered as a matter of satisfection that we are to have the cor respondence of the affair put before us. There is not much use in verbal declarations of any sort or in mere assertions of the most positive nature. Proofs are always required before conviction is formed, and this is why at all times during this session there has been such a marked reticence displayed whenever hon. members have asked for any detailed information, or demanded any returns of correspondence, &c. It is very satisfactory that the affairs of the country should be conducted in this manner, because the danger is that after a stormy session and a series of bickerings and con tentions, intermingled with personal attacks and awkward affairs, all will go on as before, except that Ministers may become more reckless if pos• sible, and still less inclined to conform to the re quirements which the feeling and opinion of the public expect from them. Great credit is due to those who, like Lord CLANRTCARDE, come forward and zealously advocate the cause of the oppressed, and set forth the true reasons for such and such a state of things. After the garbled statements, and very one-sided accounts that we meet with in high places, it is doubly necessary that private members of both Houses of the Legislature should assume a prominent position, and take upon themselves the thankless task of opposing, single-handed, the col lective force of Ministerial phalanxes, and the mighty array of those who always swear by the Government, right or wrong. It is really difficult to form a correct estimate of what might have been attempted by Ministers in their infatuated par• tiality for the Federals, if Parliament had not hap pened to meet when it did. As the surface of events becomes more complicated, and the political horizon becomes more and more threatening, we are led to appreciate to a fuller extent, and to acknow ledge with a more hearty recognition, the benefits and blessings of a eeprestntative form of Govern ment. Foreign States may be at the present moment better regulated, and more efficiently re presented than we are; but it is a matter of chance, and if the people do not approve or ratify this or that decree it will, nevertheless, be carried out all the same. It is otherwise with us, however, and whenever the overtaxed patience of the pubiic gives way, and the much abused latitude always accorded to the Cabinet is exhausted, the day of reckoning will amply atone for all previous 'aches and former shortcomings. The spirit of a free people cannot always be kept under, and the rights of the nation to have its feelings and opinions represented in an adequate form before the world must one day be vindicated in spite of all the efforts of time-serving and place-loving statesmen. 'The social statistics of a busy thriving community like our own afford a good deal of interesting matter for consideration. The returns of births, deaths, and marriages, the respective numbers of the followers of different religions, the test of popu lar education afforded by the marriage-register, and the actual strength of the population, are all paints of great importance which exercise a powerful in fluence on tne fortunes and prospects of our time. The curious have, however, pushed their inquiries still further, and have procured a careful and toler ably correct analysis of the occupations of the people. This is by no means a profitless study, and the information which it gives us is very inte resting. The task of arrangement and subdivision is by no means an easy one, and gives rise to some singular classifications—her Gracious MAJESTY and CALCRAFT, the hangman, being enrolled in the same division—the professional class ! It is true that the QUEEN is ranked, as in duty bound, first in the first department, that of the Governmental class, and that the solitary representative of what is styled " the ancient office of executioner" closes the last of the three subdivisions of the professional class. Economising Radicals will see with alarm the advance of the Governmental body from 66,724 in 1851 to 87,350 in 1861 ; but half the increase is due to the additional numbers of those very useful and hardly-worked officials, the police and the Post-office employes. The military profession also shows a considerable addition in the ten years, no less than from 85,818 to 131,944. This is a remarkable increase, consider inn that Volunteers ate not reckoned, since their military business is subordinate to their other em ployments. The learned and artistic professions furnish some curious details. Their numbers have risen more than fifty thousand iu the decade; mem hers of the clerical profession of all denominations having increased, as have also physicians, while surgeons and apothecaries have decreased, let us hope, to the diminution of drugs and blisters; bar risters have added nearly three hundred to their forces, while, happily for the world, attorneys have remained stationary. The schoolmaster is certainly abroad and preternaturally active, for sixteen thousand teachers are added to the list. Of the 110,364 instructors now ranked under that head no less than 24,770 are governesses, a forcible reminder that it is high time that female industry found other channels. We are not surprised to find fresh recruits in the ranks of the votaries of music. The old absurdity of the English not being a musical people is now pretty 'well exploded, and year by year the divine art affords employment to more and more. Signs of the times are also to be found in the rising numbers of the civil engineers,while the sudden mania for photography has increased the numbers of its followers from 45 to 2,534. Members of the literary profession are reckoned at 3,580, but this is by no means the limit of the bookmakers, since members of any other profession may write books— legal, medical, theological, &c. At the close of this professional class are found some very odd confreres, conjurors, ballad singers, and pugilists—though, considering the pugnacious tendencies so frequently displayed in public by disputants of various degrees, it is somewhat surprising to find only 18 pugilists. By far the largest class is that headed domestics, whose numbers include women not engaged in busi ness, children, innkeepers, and those engaged in providing board and lodging, besides the very large item of domestic service. Nearly a million female domestic servants were reckoned in England and Wales at tha last census, a num ber whose amount is positively startling, showing more plainly than any words could do the value and importance of an efficient training being provided for so large a class, and the vast amount of mural responsibility resting with the heads of households. It is a sign or growing pros perity that 400,000 more servants should be enu merated in '6l than in '5l, but such signs are not always infallible, since they sometimes tell as much of love of luxury or display as of actual increase of wealth. It is difficult altogether to account for the great decrease perceptible in the agricultural class. It is possibly partly due to a different method of calculation, possibly to the custom of reckoning all the grown-up members of a farmer's family as as sistants. It is possible that the increasing; energies of the time have sent some of these out into busier scenes, but when we find so great a diminution es 74,000 in this important class, it is time to look into the cause. The indus'rial por ion of h popukti-n shows a rapid increase. Its respective numbers were 4,143,293 and 4,828,399 in the two census years, and of this vast toiling multitude, the hands that work, the feet that carry on that routine work without which the thoughts of the head would profit little, no less than 1,563,889 are females, and more than 1,000,000 under 20 years of age. How wise and just are the laws that limit the power of employers when such is the case. There is good reason to fear that plenty of oppres sion goes on even with all our precautions. Such then are the component parts of our busy working world. It is a time where there are but few drones, and where those drones have little chance of dis tinction or success. Work, hard work is the secret of prominenco in English life, and the dolce far niente of softer skis, suits but little with our "black north-easters." A study of this census paper is full of suggestions to the social philosopher, showing him how wide and various are the interests that go to make up a great community, and how mistaken and mischievous are the efforts of those who would consult the interest or follow the bidding of any one class. SUN, LONDON, TIIIIRSDAY EVENING, APRIL 7, 1864. THE NEW ORATORIO, Dr. Arnold's new ora t orio of " Ahab" was last night performed for the first time at Exeter-hall with very fair success. The composition of an oratorio is a work of no light labour, demanding musical ability and scientific knowledge of the very highest order. Accustomed as the public now are to the masterpieces of Handel, Hadyu, Men delssohn, and Beethoven, a new work of this.kind has to undergo a searching ordeal on its first repre sentation. It is, therefore, a tribute to Dr. Arnold's powers that the earliest appearance of "Ahab" should have been an unqualified success. We cannot, of course, rank it with the old chef d'euvres, but taking it as a modern composition, it is certainly displays talents of a very high order, corn bined with industrious application. The principal performers were Madame Lenamens-Sherrington, Miss Palmer, Mr. Thomas, Mr. Cummings, and Mr. Renwick. The latter gentleman is a baritone, and the introduction of this kind of voice is somewhat of a novelty. The soprano part has the advantage over the contralto in the beauty of its airs. One of thsm, " Arise, arise, eat, be merry," song with great animation and effect by Madame Lemmens- Sherrington, completely charmed the audience, who enthusiastically redernanded it. The same compliment was paid to Mr. Renwick's solo in the second part, " For :i ll the Gods." The duet, " Toe scuts of the righteous," sung by two ladies, was also encored, though it scarcely deserved it. A little of the fault was, however, iu the voices of the singers. A very noisy chorus of the Prophets was repeated, but it is impossible to help remarkin; how much louder the modern compositions are than the old. The chorus singers might with advantage moderate their voices. Altogether the work reflects great credit on its compose:, and its unquestionable success must have afforded well-mei ited gratification. _ Jeux d'Esprit on Garibaldi, (From the Realm.) Salve valrle, Garibaldi I Wele:me to Britannia's ehore I You are dear, oh ! ancient hero to all hearts of oaken core. Though true blue be, more than ruby, pleasing to the taurine eye, Bull wont run down tints of san-down—morro Ws promise - blushing sky. Brave as lions, void of science, cool in fight, in council hot, Unsuspicious, injudicious, great you are though wise you're not. Dwell with Sutherland :—no other Duke could such full trust inspire, Whose endeavour has been ever to secure the Thames from fire. THE PROPOSED STATUE OF SIR ROWLAND HILL AT BIRMINGHAM.—The following communication has been received by the treasurer : —" Cannes, Var, Ist April, 1564. —Lord Brougham presents his compliments to Mr. James Lloyd, and authorises him to put down his name for ten guineas (LlO 10s.) to the subscription on account of Sir Rowland Hill, of which he highly approves, regarding Sir Rowland as a great benefactor, especially to the working classes." " MoI," at the Theatre Francais, is the title of a three-act p:ay, and, as the name signifies, is the delineation of extreme egotism, as shown by an old bache lor, who has a young and pretty housekeeper, over whom he tyrannises, and whom he keeps in a present state of slavery, and also hopes to bind to him for life, as a needy dependant to be the kind comforter of his old age. The charming housekeeper is, however, rescued from the clutches of the old man by a nephew who arrives from abroad, falls in love with the model young woman, and, even in spite' and at the risk of offending his uncle, insists upon marrying her. The process of bringing the uncle to an unselfish view of the case, through the hard things said of him by his friends, their threat of desertion, and at last a self-prompting ray of generosity left somewhere in his breast, forms the points for the actor to show his development of character, and have been very ably seized upon. It is a piece well suited to the Francais, which loves the careful and truthful portraiture of slime idiosyncrasy, and the result has been a success which rings in all quarters of Paris. DISCHARGED CONVICTS. The managers of Scoten prisons, in their report on 1863, give an abstract of the returns made by the chief officers of the general prison at Perth, relating to 561 juvenile male pri soners liberated in the last six years. Thu first half yearly report after their liberation showed that the conduct of 271 was good ; of others it was tolerable or not known ; of 54 bad, and 91 had already returned to crime. The next re port, half a year later, showed only 187 of good conduct, and 45 bad, but 187 returned to crime. The third report, half a year later still, showed 170 of good conduct, 56 bad, and 207 returned to crime. Tho numbers at the three periods whose conduct was tolerable were 42, 56, and 50, FATAL ACCIDENT._ fin inouest was held yester day at Gosport on the body of Major Richard W ollaston Clerke, of the 23th (Cameronians) Regiment, commanding a detachment of the regiment stationed tem porarily in Fort Gomer. It appeared that after mess on Sunday evening he lit a cigar and went out alone for a stroll upon the ramparts. He did not return. On the following morning his body was found in the moat which surrounds the work, and in which the water has a depth of three feet. From appearances which could be plainly traced on the ramparts of the work and in the moat it would seem that he stumbled over a part of the stonework on the ramparts, and fell over into the moat. His footprints could be traced round the work in his endeavours to extricate himself to up th withespot a w h h a e u re dh th er e c b h o ie d f y , witashfaovuinudg evidently been c u t in. Ono hand was bound falling over the parapet. The features were quite calm, and this fact, coupled with the delicate health of the de ceased and the shallow depth of water, leads to the belief that he must have been: drowned while fainting from ex haustion. An inquest was formally held, and a verdict was returned in accordance with the facts of the case. The funeral, attended with military honours, will take place to morrow. SERIOUS RAILWAY ACCIDENT. —An accident of a very serious character happened on the Methley branch of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway on Tuesday, The engine of an ordinary passenger train got off the line and crossed the rails a few yards further up, and then, breaking from the carriages, fell over an embankment. The stoker had both his legs broken, and the driver and guard were both injured, as were also one or two of the passengers, A MAN BURIED ALIVE. -- O n Mo nday afternoon a man named Thomas Wilds , who worked for Mr. Fairbank, a contractor for the Peckham branch o f th e having been fearfully injured by an L st o . n T d h on om , Chatham, and Hospital,an d Dover Railway, was admitted into immense quantity of earth falling on him, it a ppears from what can be gathered from him that h e was at his usual occupation when the earth gave way, and before h e cou ld get out of the way the whole of it fell on him, completely burying him. A number of men were quickly on the spot, and he was as soon as possible extricated and conveyed to the above hospital, where he was attended by the house surgeon, who ascertained he had fearfully injured his back, hip, and thigh. He lies in a dangerous condition. FATAL BOAT ACCIDENT AT TORQUAY.-0 0 Sun day a large nun: her of the crew of H.M.S. Prince Consort, now lying off Torquay, in Torbay, were permitted on shore on leave. With the exception of some stragglers they returned on board about 7 o'clock in an orderly man ner. Soon atterwar,fs those who had been left behind car=e down to the pier —it is said a dozen in all. They hired a waterman's beat, and two men, named Norsworthy and Hayman, pulled them off., With such a number the boat was overloaded, and when only about a dozen feet from the pier head capsized. Eight of the men were rescued ; how many are drowned is uncertain for the present, but the bodies of two men—Hayman, the waterman, and Winters, an able seamen—have been recovered.— Woleril awning A'nee, LATEST INTELLIGENCE. LREUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] ENGAGEMENT BEFORE DUFFEL. COPENHAGEN, APRIL 6, 2.45 P.m Last night the enemy drove back our vedettes upon the left wing, when an infantry engagement ensued. At daybreak our troops re-occupied their former position. During the night the enemy extended the parallel already commenced. Oar loss is trifling. AMERICA. SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL 7. The Hamburg and American Company's steamer Saxonia sailed this morning for Now York with a large cargo and upwards of 500 passengers. The Hamburg and American Company's steamer Hammonia sailed at the same time for Liverpool. The gun fired on board to announce her departure exploded, killing the gunner. THE CAPE MAIL. PLYMOUTH, APRIL 7. The royal mail steamer Saxon left here last night with the Cape mails, comprising 19 bags of letters, 100 bags of papers, and 12 bags of books, 32 pas sengers, and £60,000, shipped at Plymouth for the Cape Government. FRANCE. PARIS, APRIL 7 (Morning). The Meniteur of this morning says :—" Accord ing to advices from Miramar the Archduke Maxi milian will receive the Mexican deputation on Saturday. He will leave for Mexico on Sunday next." BOURSE, April 6.—Stock has been rather offered, and the business done has been at a slight decline. Threes, for the A3count, are now at 65f. 95c., end Mobilier at 1,045 tr. Railway Market also heavy, and many of the lilies show a slight decline. The following are quoted ex div.:--Orleans (Old) 70fr. New 81fr. 25c. Western 20fr. Roman 12fr. 50c. The market closed as follows : 41 per Cents. 93 20 110, end month per Cents Do. end m0nth.,,.,, 66 Credit Mobilier, 1042 50 Do, end month., 1043 75 Bank Shares 3295 Credit F oncier 1272 60 Roman Italian Loan 67 40 • Do. end month 67 65 I Sew ditto • Do. end month — Russian Austrian ..... 80 Spanish Threes — Home Debt ••• • • • -- Deferred WAYS. Cfl.Bti. Amount. ... qorthern • • • • 885 - .. 890 - 963 75 .. 967 50 New ditto and Mcditcri - anean New ditto Southern 932 50 .. 935 - 875 53 - 650 - 648 75 Western Eastern •p•• 00000 4.1" 49.5 597 50 480 - .. 480 - Sardinian .. 366 25 365 Austrian Lowbard North of Spain Saragossa 585 580 Ditto to Barcelona LITERATURE, A Wonderful Index, Index Goographicus. Compiled Specially with reference to Keith Johnston's Royal Atlas. One Vol., pp. 676. Wm. Blackwood and Sons. As a mere matter of curiosity we should like un commonly to know how long it could possibly have taken to build up, as it were, pebble by pebble, this mighty cairn of geographical information. We should be disposed to conjecture, at a rough calcu lation, that within the compass of these 676 double. columned pages there must be ranged together here in alphabetical order—from "Aa Moss; Zealand, Denmark, 55 deg. 35 min. N. latitude, 11 deg. 30 min. E. longitude," to " Zywiec or Seypusch ; Gal licia, Austria, 49 deg. 41 min. N. latitude, to 19 deg. 12 min. longitude"—upwards of one hun dred and twenty thou Sand pieces of just such precise and valuable (almost, we might say, in. valuable, because direct and practical) information. The Index Geographicus, it should be especially noticed, is, as we have just said, arranged is one long streak (as the Yankees would term it) of names, of localities, of Mountains, Rivers, Valleys, Straits, Archipelagoes, Gulfs, Peninsulas, Sattlements, Provinces, Capes, Forts, Harbours, Islands, Parishes, Volcanoes, Glaciers, Counties, Promontories, In lets, Canals, Bridges, Lakes, Villages, and what not —alphabetically ! That is, in one consecutive chain of names—alphabetically printed—from the top of the first column in page 1 to the bottom of the second column in page 674—comprising the body of the work : otherwise from the beforementioned inaugural Aa-moss to the final name (exclusive of those in the single leaf of the addenda) i. e., Zwiec It is worthy of particular note, again, in regard to this marvellous repertory of knowledge of a purely geographical kind, that while each name out of so vast a multitude of names as to have been already computed by us as extending to a total in round numbers of some 120,000 or there abouts—that while to each of these names there is attached not only mention of the latitude and longitude of the especial locality referred to, but, in numerals and abbreviations, reference also to a given map in the magnificent Royal Atlas (that no plus ultra among atlases) compiled by Mr. Keith Johnston, and published by the Messrs. Blackwood and Sons, of London and Edinburgh— the Index Geographicus is, notwithstanding this, applicable, directly and instantaneously applicable, to all modern atlases and maps whatsoever. In point of fact, the work is announced by advertise ment to have aimed, in the first place, at rendering itself as completely as possible an Index of easy re- . ferenca to the Royal Atlas of Mr. Keith Johnston aforesaid; and, in the next place, at becoming, as far as might prove to be in every way compatible with this primary object, available as an Index of easy reference to all other geographical works—howso ever, or by whomsoever published, whether as single maps or as atlases (other than the Royal), whether published by the Messrs. Blackwood, or issued from other establishments than theirs, say, for example, from the establishments of either Mr. James Wyld, or Mr. Edward Stanford, both of Charing-cross. The work before us, as it has now been completed, we may assert at once quite confidently, realises both of these objects— that is, the primary one and the subsidiary one—and it does so in a manner in the highest degree satisfactory. Nay it does more than this—it has been so carried out as to constitute itself what it indeed has acknowledged its aspiring to do—it has constitned itself that is to say, a direct and acceptable substitute for the Gazeteer. As a matter of course, in realising thus the primary object with which this mammoth Index Geographicus was undertaken, every in dividual name anywhere to be found in the Royal Atlas has in this vast and eomprohensive Index been duly catalogued. In recording thus every one of those names, here, in alphabetical order, the greatest care appears to have been taken, nut in a merely general sense, but in a very especial sense indeed, to secure exactitude in the nomen clature. Meaning, when we say this, that all the nearly countless aliases of localities have been duly recorded and catalogued in like man ner. As, for example, in respect to names occurring in the map of Hindostan—iin the map of that country to be found in the Royal Atlas and equally also in every map of Hindostan whatever — Pondicherry is recorded here in the Index Geogra phicus, and so also is Catch, but with Catch occurs here likewise as more consonant with Eastern pro nunciation Kachh, and with Pondicherry for a like reason, Puducheri. Ex uno dine omnes. And hence the whole " Index," as an " Index," is really and truly about the completest possible. Another ex traordinary facilitation of reference is secured by the careful insertion of all names having the prefix Saint—under any and every of its modificeions, as Sainte, San, Santa, Sao, Szent. The clue of clues for reference—to the Royal Atlus first of all, but quite as well also to all other maps and atlases—is to be found, the most naturally BS IL as well as the most sPcurPly, in the minutely calcu lated meeting -point at every given locality of the latitude and the longittde. It is this minute ell ciliation of each, that imparts to t he work undrr n u lio t itS c wspietious and most retmcrkable value. As a Geogr.phicdl Guide, sod G iziteer, .nti Index, ail in one, the work is really nothing less than a boon in this age of already vastly multiplied, and still fast multiplying knowledge of all kinds, On the Phenomena of Ifybridity in the Genus Homo. By Dr. Paul Broca. Edit€d by C. Carter Blake. One Vol., pp. 88, Longman and Company. It is wonderful what solid and valuable informa tion has ken here compacted togther—within lees than one hundred pages octavo. Another work of very considerable value has thus been added to the list of publications now commencd, with a pro spect, let us hope, of fast multiplying into a sub stantial library, under the auspices and, more than that, under the careful supervision and at the direct instance of the Society of our London Anthro pologists. The treatise here placed within reach of the English reading public is obviously, of course, in no degree comparable, in the comprehensiveness of its survey, to its immediate predecessor, that remarkable work from the hand of Dr. Weitz, constituting about the aptest introduction to the science of Anthropology yet compiled, penned, too, by one of the profoundest masters of that science for the use of every student coming to it purely and simply as a beginner—a work we ourselves had the satisfaction nearly four months ago of earnestly commending, through these columns, to the consideration of scientific readers generally, meaning the happily•chosen first volume of the " Anthropologic der NaturNiiiker." It is not, in this instance, once more to a German master that the Publishing Committee of the Anthropo logical Society has directed its attention, with a view to selecting some new work upon a specific branch of the science (not upon the science as a whole hut, let us repeat the words, upon a specific branch of it), it is not, we say, to a German writer again that the Publishing Committee of our English Anthropological Society has turned its regard, but to a French anthropologist as profound in his mastery of the science 134 Dr. Broca. A writer, moreover, upon this science whose merits are sach, within the recognition of scientific Europe, that his present editor, Mr. Blake, can deprecate his own select'on by the learned President of the Anthropological Society as editor of Dr. Paul Broca's treatise on Hybridiry, thus earnestly, and yet in no respect at all extravagantly : namely, where he says in his Preface—" The habitual methods of thought of Dr. Paul Broca ore so exact, his style [is?] so terse, his knowledge of the literature of anthropology so vast, and his power of application and concentration of ideas [are] so pawn fut, Chat a just preference might have selected another Editor." Not so—at least so far as relates to their appreciation of his selection as Editor of De. broea—not so will the readers of this Eogtish version of this little work on Hybridiry, by the French philosopher, think when they have come to read it, or even when they have come to advance a little way in the reading of it : though it is agreeable enough, in the midst of so .ouch iutolerable self-assertion on the part of others, to note a skilled and conecierltious cuitivator of the science of anthropology, such as Mr. Carter Blake, waiving has any claim of his to the honour of being in this manner singled out from among all his colleagues by his President. A more judicious selection, evidently, the learned President, Dr. James Hunt, could hardly have made than he has made in thus choosing the " other" Secretary of the Association to endite a treatise, within the narrow compass of which so much of the exact thought, the terse style, so much of the power of concentration and the capacity for concentrated thought, so much of that vast knowledge of anthropological literature, noticeable in the writings of Dr. Broca, are com pacted together. As a searching inquiry into the complex subject of Human Hybridity, the work, brief though it is, we believe to be as yet unrivalled, Popular Edition of the Speeches and Addresses of H.I.H. the Prince Consort. One Vol. pp. 127. John Murray. As a memorial of our beloved and lamented Prince nothing could well be more beautiful in its way than this popular edition of his Speeches, in a little green volume issued from the great publishing house in Albermarle-street, price One Shilling. The very colour of the brochure seems to us appro., priate—Lence, indeed, we have just now mentioned it—this same popular issue of the Speeches and Addresses of H.R.H. being in a very especial manner calculated to " keep his memory green" in the hearts of that Great People who had learnt so to love him, and who have had, during these last two years, suoh bitter cause to lament what still appears to us his premature disappearance. Popular—in the fullest meaning of the phrase—the work is surely certain to be : and it is earneselyao be hoped, both for the sake of the departed Prince, and for that also of his revered relict, for the sake of hie Royal Highness and of her M±sty, that it may be so. And for this reason—that these Speeches and Ad. dresses, just exactly as they are here faith fully recorded—these Speeehes and Addresses, just precisely as they fell from his lips in life, verbatim et literatim, now that he is dead, now that his lips can breathe no other syllable, at once, to any one who reads them thinkingly, explain and justify (both, to the full) the Prince Consort's resplendent reputa tion. They explain and justify, completely and signally, his reputation as a philosopt , ie thinker, as a keen-eyed statesman, as an appreciator of art, as a scientific enquirer, and, above all that, (and how much more!) as a practical philanthropist. Nay, more than this, it should be said in simple justice to the nature of the Prince, that the little work here comme morative of so many of Ills gentler senti ments and aspirations, as a sympathiser with his "kind" generally, but in a very particular manner as a sympathiser with the groat multitude of the " workers" among his fellow-creatures, indicates in the Prince's regard far more even than his wisdom—his goodness. It is so conspicuously thus with the whole tenour of these Speeches and Addresses that they may be said in a manner to underline and emphasise the epithet distinctively applied to H.R.H. by the Poet Laureate in those exquisite verses, which are perhaps the masterpiece of Alfred Tennyson—that dedication of his " Idyls of the King" to the memory of the Prince, in which the Poet apostrophised him as " ALBERT THE GOOD!" As a popular memorial calculated to perpetuate the intimate appreciation of his nobler qualities by the English people, the cheap re-issue of a work hitherto published only in a costly form is beyond all the sculptured monuments, the marble cenotaphs, the architectural mausoleums, the porphyry sarcophagi that could be constructed, as symbols of honour to his me mory, by the lavished love and grief and wealth of a mourning nation. Tne little book is altogether so perfect a memento of the Prince Consort, as one who was " a Prince indeed" that it would be a gratification to think the time may yet come and that speedily, when a copy of it may be lying upon the parlour table of every cottage in the land, and upon the scant book-shelf of every town mechanic. THE QUEEN OF SPAIN has presented the Empress of the French with two magnificent horses of the Aranjuez race—a mixture of Arab and the Spanish breed. A NOBLE VETERAN.—A movement has been set on foot for the purpose of erecting a memorial to the honour of Field-Marshal Viscount Combermere, G.C.B , G.C.11., to commemorate his long and diOnguished ser vices as a soldier. It is proposed to erect the memorial in Cheshire, in which county Combermere Abbey is situate. Lord Combermere, who has reached the age of 84, holds the office of Constable of the Tower of Landon, and Custos Rotmorum of the Tower Hamlets, to which he was ap pointed on the death of the late Duke of Wellington. Russia gives hostages to the future fortune of Denmark in the announcement of the heir to the Czar's throne having proposed for the hand of Princess Maria Dagmar, younger sister of the Princess of Wales. The bridegroom comes of age on the 20th next September, being four years above that of his intended bride. The Danish Princess is to visit St. Petersburg in the autumn, and conform to the orthodox Fastern Church, according to the law of the gnvire,—hyttsr from 'tkw h pe, Canal tlrtubt HER MAJESTY. -4 - WINDSOR CASTLE, April 6. Earl Granville arrived at the Cnstle yesterday. Tile royal dinner party consisted of his Majesty the King of the Belgians, her Royal Highness Princess Helena, her Royal Highness Princess Augustus of Saxe Coburg, and her Serene Highness Princes Clotilde ; the Countess of Gainshorougb , Lady in Waiting to her Maj'sty ; Lady Caroline BA, rington, Madlle. de Borsch, the Hon. Caroline Cavendish, the Hon. Emma Laseelles, Earl Granville. Lieutt.• General the Hon. C. Grey, Col. the Hon. Sir Charles Phipps, General Count de Moerkeike, and Dr. K( eel, gentlemen in attendance on the King of the Belgians; Lord Rivers, Colonel F. Seymour , C. 8., Major-General F. Seymour, Lieut.-Colonel de Plat, Mr. SA!, and the Master of the Household, His Majesty the King of the Belgians, attended by General Count de Moerkerke and Dr. Kceplf left the Castle this afornoon for Buckiegbate Palace. Her Royal Highness Princess Augustus of Saxe Coburg, their Serene Highnesses Princess Clotilde, Princess Amele, and Prince Ferdinand, attended by Madlle. de Borsch, left the Castle this morning for Claremont. General Garibaldi's Visit to the Opera, On Thursday next General Garibaldi will visit the Royal Italian Opera, Covent Garden. The performances on this interesting occasion are to include the opera of " Norma" and also the two great acts of " Masaniello." Pundemoniva. Puns are not popular in modern drawing-rooms, and pro bably never were really popular anywhere. A pun may contain a joke as a nutshell may contain a kernel, or not But the number of people who understand a jeke off-has is very limited ; end it is obviously inconvenient to have a joke cracked in your presence if you don't know on the spa of the moment how to treat it. ziomething may be done by the formula of saying " how very bad 1" to everything is the nature of a joke that everybody ventures on ; but if the joke happens to be very good, and there is a sprinkling Of wits pre,-ent, who "know a joke when they hear it," the dull men who says " how very bad" in the wrong place is himself in a false position. Dull men, who are the maj have made an effort to confuse good and bad in jokes by the theory that jokes are "good in proportion to their badnesei and that "how very bad" may be a protest or a compliment provisionally, as the joke may prove successful or stillborn. But on the whole dull men dislike jukes when there is any responsibility attached to themselves in appreciating or re probating these troublesome Squibs and crackers. The authorised wits joke and laugh at one another's jokes in a spirit of muuual accommodation; and society is obliged to accept a few recognised humorists at whose sayings, good or bad, they laugh principally by faith. Society takes its revenge on the small, ye ung, and unac knowledged wits by snubbing them as much as possible. And, on the wide average, wide reason. For wit is like poetry in the rarity of the girt and the multitude of pre tenders to it. Mere punning is to wit what mere versifica tion is to poetry. The wit seizes a numerous and unex pected collateral meaning in a commonplace phrase, by which, without dislocating the sequence of ordinary con ventional talk, he conveys, to those who see its point, some keen insinuation of satire, some vivid conviction of absur dity. But if he is a good wit, such as society tolerates, the blunt end of his remark must pass muster as sense, if the company fail to perceive the point at the . sharp end of it. The pun pure and simple, the pun impertinent and ob noxious, instead of letting in a flash of the intense through a rift in the commonplace, thrusts in the blunt end of commonplace double meaning on some casual word perhaps occurring in a discussion of interest. This is a bore ; and as desperate punsters in barbarous days were guilty of this turpitude, they brought puns into such bad odour that the infliction has been almost extirpated from society. But the bad habit, banished from private life, has taken refuge en the stage. Dull men congregated in large bodies seem to like the very worst jokes, and at Easter and Christmas time Pandemonium is let loose in extravaganzas and burlesques. Released from the pressure of intersocial criticism, punning has in these gradually swollen to a magnitude and malignity which the old punmen never dreamed of. Our forefathers used to pun at worst on single words, but the modern fashion is to dislocate whole sentences. Wit remains as rare as ever; but the mechanical substitute has advanced in elaborate complication with the scientific appliances of the age. The motto of the Comic News is s typical example of this phrase excruciating conceit. Ifoni soil qui 'nal y yense is thus Englished—" On his walk he madly puns." It is melan choly to think of the labour this effort must have cost, and when the feat is performed there is no fun in it. Now we wish to speak seriously to those three busy B's, Messrs. Brough, Byron, and Burnand, who seem to employ each shining and shady hour of their lives in cudgelling their brains for fresh forms of word-torture. Cease your punning, gentlemen, at any rate in your dramatic works. Your best quips are really thrown away on your audiences• They don't " take" above one joke out of a score, and usually miss the most ingenious altogether — The Realm. COTTON SUPPLY ASSOCIATION. At the usual weekly meeting of the Ezecutivo Committee, held on luesoay, a letter was read awn Nassau, stating that a small bale of cotton grown tram Egytian seed at Grand Bahama, taad cleaned ny a gin sent out by the association, has ueen for warded for sale. A correspondent at Loaf; island, one of the Bahamas, reports that almost everybody on that island has now planted cotton, and that gentleman on his way to Nassau purchased in. few hours 3,000ib. ot fine cotton. The favourable results so far realised seem to justify the expecta tion that cotton will continue to be grown in ran increased degree at Grand Bahama. A letter woe received from Si. Knee, West Indies, reporting theL some experiments in growing cotton had succeeded well, and that the writer intends to plant a large area t '+.year. On some estates in which he is terested in the adjoining island of Nevis cotton had been tried, but had not done well, owing to execs' sive drought. some samples have been forwarded which, it found to be satisfactory, will prove stuainus to greater efforts. The cultivation of cot' ion is gradually extending, although it is yet but 0 experiment. A letter was read enclosing a sam plc ot cotton from Batavia which had been grown fr ore American seed sent out by the association. It je stated that the Egyptian and Sea Island seed had not succeeded, but that the New Orleans promiaod well, and it was intended to sow a larger quanti I 9 of that description. Encouraging accounts were also forwarded from Manilla. Letters were receiva 4 from Genoa and Turin, representing the importanc e of promoting the growth of Sea Island cotton in Sardinia, for which that island is well adapted,a nd requesting to be furnished with large supplies of seed. It is intended to plant 1,000 hectares at once' and upwards of 5,000 hectares next year, as ever experiment so far gives assurance of satisfactal results, A letter was read from Malta, conveying, the thanks of the directors of the Exhibition e l Maltese Industry for a grant of gins made by 1; 136 association, as prizes to be presented to the in O t successful cultivators of cotton. The Exhibitio n opens in the second week of April, and informati n° of its progress will be supplied. Consular de . spatches, forwarded by the Foreign-office, wer e received from her Majesty's Consul-General at Beyrout, containing a comparative return of Lbe quantity of cotton seed sown in the pashalic of Sidon in the years 1862 and 1863, and showing Olt: the excess in the latter over the former year ne A been 209 per cent., and amounted to 1,193,7931 b. return of the quantity of cotton shipped at the pa r ot the pashalic during, the last two years will be speedily obtained and forwarded. The Cotton Cow' mission is taking measures for the disiributiou to American cotton seed from CJustantinoplea t be given to the growers gratuitously for the preaching season. A despatch from Mr. C onsul irt Green, Bucharest, contains en interesting ToP.c_ia from G ilalz of some experiments in the cu ltivation at cotton, communicated by Prince Couz a ' s sect 11 zaty. The result of these experiments is a r li ti conviction that cotton ~,an be advantageously g rown in the Danubian provinces. A sampl e has _,OO forwarded as an illustration of what can be pro duced. General Glribdidi leaves Brooke on AlondaY be morning for Loodou. Lunch is ordered to ready for him and his friends at the Fountain Rot el, m the Wo t Cowes, on his arrival there. Ile i s to embark fro Fountain-pier at ten o'clock, so as to reach Southau3l"l3 to time for the 11,35 train for 14ondon.